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and the others aren't?
And Grok's competitors doing the opposite is justified?
Re:What About Rails? on Friday September 25, 2026 @05:21PM (#49850105)
We both know what the 'answer' is because we are normal people who understand nuance - a skill many people have lost as they have come to have their ideals defined by their identity, not the other way around.

> Just because some people calling someone a nazi are wrong doesn't mean everyone calling someone a nazi is wrong.

Sometimes they aren't just wrong, they are the loudest.

Re:Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking on Friday September 25, 2026 @04:54PM (#49849829)
Theo has been "it's so over pilled" his videos are hard to watch.
Re:What About Rails? on Friday September 25, 2026 @04:51PM (#49849798)
In the absurd post-truth future we find ourselves in a situation where wrong think just means anything right of what Hasan Piker thinks on a given day.
Re:What About Rails? on Friday September 25, 2026 @04:48PM (#49849760)
because once you attempt to start to apply any label it becomes more and more vague. If I am a black man from South Africa who hates white people for perpetuating the Apartheid, am I welcome or am I a racist? If I am a man who's own father transitioned to being a woman and I no longer feel comfortable around trans-people because I lost my 'father figure', am I a transphobe or am I welcome? I understand these are deliberately obtuse examples. I bring them up because I never know where on the spectrum the line is drawn for these labels yet people will gladly declare somebody a 'nazi' because their dad watches Fox News. Even asking the question "when does somebody on the right go far enough to be considered a fascist?" often is met with the retort "defending nazis makes you a nazi".
Re:Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @03:09PM (#49717307)
Did anybody watch the Primeagen's video on Google bag-fumbling? Interesting they released on the same day!
Re:Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @04:34PM (#49633806)
The sentiment goes both ways?
Re:When random.bytes() runs but doesn't work on Sunday August 02, 2026 @04:37AM (#49142373)
Have you found a write up you’d recommend on how the threat actors actually exploited the vulnerabilities?
Re:When random.bytes() runs but doesn't work on Sunday August 02, 2026 @04:36AM (#49142362)
I think what is the author is getting at is that if you are cavalier in your commit messages when the stakes are low, chances are you aren’t taking writing code that handles money seriously. Made me think of some merges I could have taken more seriously.
You’d have a better chance of getting your PR accepted into https://github.com/Vinovest/sqlx
Re:The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @02:35PM (#48911204)
SalC1 made a great video about how this was accomplished: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDyze1YlOrI
Re:The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @02:34PM (#48911185)
It was made on 2b2t, the seed is well known: -4172144997902289642. FitMC makes a video where he shows what the original spawn looked like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksS00MCQPog
Re:Ten Years of Franz on Saturday June 06, 2026 @02:35AM (#48422033)
I used Franz and then went it went freemium I used ferdi for a while. I like using Zen browser and it’s based on Firefox
Re:'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut on Sunday May 31, 2026 @11:07PM (#48352203)
Another comment reminded me that there is a similar one called You Should Have Left.
Re:'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut on Sunday May 31, 2026 @11:06PM (#48352190)
The faster you read House of Leaves the better the meta-experience.
Re:'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut on Sunday May 31, 2026 @11:03PM (#48352178)
I swear I used to see shorts or reels with a Kevin Bacon version of the House of Leaves story
Re:You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss (2008) on Sunday May 31, 2026 @01:32PM (#48347644)
Good luck! You might not find anything out tomorrow, but it still might work in the long run.
Re:Leave Me Behind on Monday May 25, 2026 @01:16PM (#48269214)
> how a tool that allows you to be 100 times more productive

Because we don’t agree on this premise

Re:Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @06:04PM (#48029288)
Do you think we’ll get it before or after Tesla FSD?
Matt Parker from Stand-up Maths analyzed the "Minecraft boat-drop mystery," in this interesting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei58gGM9Z8k
Re:RubyGems Fracture Incident Report on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @03:56PM (#47592608)
I read the article but I’m out of the loop enough to not understand Shopify and 37signals piece in this can you clarify? Is there another place I can be pointed to with that background information?
Re:How A Spartan Revolutionized Baseball on Monday March 30, 2026 @09:45AM (#47574281)
When the Cubs signed Aroldis Chapman I went to the first game where he came out of the bullpen and I will never forget the entire crowd looking at the scoreboard and reacting every time he hit 100 miles an hour. Now every team has somebody that hits 100. It blows my mind people can throw a baseball faster than I drive on the interstate.
When I was younger I remember a point of demarcation for me was learning the 4chan adage “trolls trolling trolls”, and approaching all internet interactions with skepticism. While I have been sure that Reddit for a while has succumbed to being “dead internet”. This thread is another moment for me- I can no longer recognize who is a bot, and who has honest intentions.
Re:I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video] on Saturday March 28, 2026 @11:04AM (#47555231)
VRAM goes vroom vroom.

I emailed him the video from OP and he mentioned they’ve done some collaboration. I’m assuming there’s a retro programming discord that I’m not worthy of.

I posted something similar the other day, but at this point it is too little too late. Using windows feels like actively submitting to a hostile user experience.

I look back fondly to the time I had using my Dell XPS when WSL first came out, they had me hooked. I've been using MacBook Pro for about a decade now and I can't even fathom going back to windows. Every time I open the start menu I feel personally attacked.

I used to obsess over reading xda developer forums and playing around with my android phone. I would laugh at the "sheeple" using apple products for not being customizable and giving away their freedom.

At this point in my life "it just works" is good enough and no longer a point of ironic derision.

I am convinced that nobody at Microslop uses any of their products.
I just assume a lot of product managers have never used their products anymore, and it shows across the industry.

Have you ever tried to play Xbox live after not being signed in for a long time?

Have you ever tried to use smart search terms in the Amazon search box?

Have you ever tried to use these tv channel apps on a Roku?

Do Fridgeaire reps own their own appliances?

I’m just convinced people don’t use their own products where the people that use them and care are so few and far in between things are only getting enshrined.

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